Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Logansport has a population of 15,000. Thb Winchester Journal has » steam press, ths first one ever used in Randolph County. John Harrison’s store in Clayton was recently burglarized to the tune of about SI,OOO worth. Knightsvtllk and Brazil jointly shipped 1,180 can of coal during May, an increase of 188 can over April. Dr. Henry A. Stone, of Goshen, has been appointed physician and surgeon of the Northern State Prison. The State Fair and Exposition will be held at Indianapolis, Sept. 7 to Oct. 2. Alex. Herron is the Secretary. Spiceland temperance people order their paper stopped when they find an application for liquor license in it The number of children received at the Colored Orphan Asylum at Indianapolis last year was ninety-four. Evansville thinks she is entitled to a population of 80,000, but will say no more about it if they will call it 50,000. It is claimed that there is more actual work in railroad building now in progress in Indiana than in any other State. Samuel Rosemeier, a farmer living in German Township, Vanderburgh County, was instantly killed by lightning the other day.’ Peter Smith was recently run over and instantly killed by a construction train at Eagle Creek, on the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad. A masked burglar recently broke into George Gregg’s residence at Connersville and got away with S3O in currency and $20,000 in notes. Rev. Mr. Carnahan, of Dayton, on a recent Sabbath delivered his farewell sermon, fhus closing a pastoral relation of over forty-five years. : Andy Randle was killed at Kokomo the other evening by the caving of a ditch in which he was digging. He was covered to a depth of eight feet. A saloon-keeper named Ross shot and instantly killed a young man named Frank Rossfield, with whom he had had some difficulty, at Aurora, a few evenings ago. gAn Indianapplitan was bitten by a dog supposed to be mad. The dog was killed, when it was ascertained that it was only a case of terebinthinate-diathesis—whatever that is. A premature explosion of powder on the occasion of the celebration of Corpus Christo Day, at St. Wendell, Posey County, caused fatal injuries to the four participants. f The potato-bugs are said to be making great havoc in the Olive Branch neighborhood. They put in an appearance as soon as the vines came up. Hog cholera is also quite troublesome. The postal changes in the State for the week ending June s,were: Postmasters appointed—lnglefield, Vanderburgh County, N. B. Allen; West Buena Vista, Gibson County, William L. Frederick.

The pedestrian Payne recently walked a match against a trotting horse. The conditions were that Payne should walk a quarter of a mile while the horse trotted half a mile. The latter’s time was 1:30 and that of Payne 1:28. The wife of Samuel Jacobs, a farmer Jiving near Monroe, in Tippecanoe County, was shot in the breast and perhaps mortally wounded a few days ago. Her son had handed her a loaded revolver and by some means it was accidentally discharged while passing into her hands. The coal excitement in Butler Township, Miami County, still continues. A man who represents himself as a Pennsylvania miner and prospector has been engaged in sinking a shaft, and claims that as he gets deeper into the earth the prospects brighten, until now, he says, he is absolutely certain that coal exists. On a recent Sunday teams were hitched in the vicinity as though a camp-meeting was in progress. The shaft is thirty-five feet deep, and the bed-rock has been reached, and preparations are being made to bore through this. The Lafayette Journal says: “At a recent wedding in this county not long since a couple of young men residing in this city purchased and presented to the young couple articles of silver table-ware. As soon as received they (the presents) were carefully washed and made to do duty at the supper table after the marriage ceremony. Then followed a season of dancing and mirth, a string band having been procured from the city. About the time the two young men we have referred to were getting ready to leave for home they were approached by a friend of the newly-married couple, who demanded from each two dollars and a half to help pay for the music. As a matter they indignantly refused, got into their buggy and drove home. In vietf of the fact that the high contracting parties and their families are both wealthy, this circumstance stands out as one worthy to be recorded, and kept on record for all tiAe to come.”

Fairs will be held at the places and dates indicated below: Bridgeton, Aug. 23 to 28; Logansport, Sept. 6 to 11; Charlestown, Sept. 8 to 10; Cambridge City, Sept. 14 to 17; Aurora, Sept. 7to 10; Connersville, Sept. 7 to 11; Covington, Sept 21 to 24; Pendleton, Sept. 7 to 10; Marion, Sept. 21 to 24; Gosport, Aug. 31 to Sept. 4; Corydon, Sept. 14 to 18; New Castle, Aug. 24 to 27; Danville, Sept. 7to 12; Kokomo, Sept. 21 to 24; Huntington, Sept. 21 to 24; Rensselaer, Sept. 16 to 18; Portland, Sept. 28 to Oct. 1; North Madison, Sept. 20 to 24; Seymour, Sept. 7to 10; Vincennes, Oct. 11 to 16; Crown Point, Sept. 29 to Oct. 1; Bedford, Sept. 13 to 19; Loogootee, Sept. 27 to Oct. 2; Valley Mills, Sept. 9to 11; Bloomington, Sept. 21 to 24; Martinsville, Sept. 7to 11; Waterloo, Oct. 5 to 8; Ft. Wayne, Sept 13 to 18; Bloomingdale, Sept. 8 to 10; New Harmony, Sept. 14 to 17; Greencastle, Aug. 16 to 21; Peru, Sept. 21 to 24; Rushville, Sept. 14 to 17; Winchester, Sept. 14 to 17; Shelbyville, Aug. 31 to Sept. 5; Rockport, Sept. 28 to Oct. 2; Lafayette, Aug. 30 to Sept. 4; Tipton, Sept. 14 to 17; Union City, Sept. 14 to 18; Russellville, Aug. 30 to Sept. 3; Knightstown, Aug. 81 to Sept. 8; Wabash, Sept. 14 to 17; Centreville, Sept. 14 to 17; Columbia City. 91 to 24; Worthing. |OD, Oct. 4 to 10,